# Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine

The Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Міністерство соціальної політики України, romanized: Ministerstvo sotsialnoi polityky Ukrainy), formerly the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, is the Ukrainian government department responsible for instituting labor relations, family and children, immigration and trafficking, women's rights, children's rights, and humanitarian aid.

## Specialization

* Population Employment and Labor Migration
* Work Relationships
* Populations Social Security
* Family and Children Affairs
* Rights Security of the Deported by National Identity People which returned to Ukraine
* Ensuring the equal rights and possibilities for women and men
* Prevention of violence in family

## Structures

The ministry consists of the central body of ministry headed by its leadership composed of a minister, his/hers first deputy, and other deputies in assistance to the minister. Part of ministry compose several state administrations that are specialized in certain field and coordinate operations of government companies.

### State agencies

* State Service for disabled and veterans of Ukraine
* State Inspection of Ukraine in labor affairs
* State Employment Service

#### System of State Social Security

* State Social Security Fund in case of Unemployment
* Social Security Fund for temporary Disability
* Social Security Fund for industrial Accidents
* Pension Fund of Ukraine

## List of ministers

| Name of ministry | Name of minister | Term of office | Term of office |
| Name of ministry | Name of minister | Start | End |
| Ministry of Social Security | Yuriy Lapchinskiy | 1918 | 1918 |
| Ministry of Social Security | | 1918 | 1920 |
| Ministry of Social Security | Nikolai Glebov-Avilov | 9 May 1920 | 29 May 1920 |
| Ministry of Social Security | Boris Yeltsin | 1920 | 1921 |
| Ministry of Social Security | Varvara Moyrova | 1921 | 1922 |
| Ministry of Social Security | Ilya Korneyev | 1922 | 1923 |
| Ministry of Social Security | Karl Einstein | 1923 | 1924 |
| Ministry of Social Security | Jacob Poznanski | March 1924 | July 1926 |
| Ministry of Social Security | Hryhoriy Pokornyi | July 1926 | 29 May 1934 |
| Ministry of Social Security | Ivan Slynko | 29 May 1934 | 1936 |
| Ministry of Social Security | Ivan Kudrin | 14 March 1936 | August 1937 |
| Ministry of Social Security | | August 1937 | June 1938 |
| Ministry of Social Security | Yevdokia Lehur | June 1938 | 15 February 1945 |
| Ministry of Social Security | Vladimir Muratov | 15 February 1945 | 25 October 1946 |
| Ministry of Social Security | Fedir Ananchenko | 25 October 1946 | 11 December 1956 |
| Ministry of Social Security | | 11 December 1956 | May 1957 |
| Ministry of Social Security | Oleksiy Fedorov | May 1957 | 19 March 1979 |
| Ministry of Social Security | Oleksandra Lukyanenko | 19 March 1979 | 17 September 1991 |
| Ministry of Social Security | Arkadiy Yershov | 17 September 1991 | 28 August 1996 |
| Ministry of Social Security | Petro Ovcharenko | 28 August 1996 | 29 July 1997 |
| Ministry of Labor and Social Policy | Mykola Bilobotsky | July 1997 | June 1998 |
| Ministry of Labor and Social Policy | Ivan Sakhan | June 25, 1998 | November 30, 2002 |
| Ministry of Labor and Social Policy | Mykhailo Papiev | November 30, 2002 | February 3, 2005 |
| Ministry of Labor and Social Policy | Viacheslav Kyrylenko | February 4, 2005 | September 27, 2005 |
| Ministry of Labor and Social Policy | Ivan Sakhan | September 27, 2005 | August 4, 2006 |
| Ministry of Labor and Social Policy | Mykhailo Papiev | August 4, 2006 | December 18, 2007 |
| Ministry of Labor and Social Policy | Lyudmyla Denisova | December 18, 2007 | March 11, 2010 |
| Ministry of Labor and Social Policy | Vasyl Nadraha | March 11, 2010 | December 9, 2010 |
| Ministry of Social Policy | Serhiy Tihipko | December 9, 2010 | December 24, 2012 |
| Ministry of Social Policy | Natalia Korolevska | December 24, 2012 | 'February 24, 2014 |
| Ministry of Social Policy | Lyudmyla Denisova | February 27, 2014 | December 2, 2014 |
| Ministry of Social Policy | Pavlo Rozenko | December 2, 2014 | 14 April 2016 |
| Ministry of Social Policy | Andriy Reva | 14 April 2016 | 29 August 2019 |
| Ministry of Social Policy | Yuliya Sokolovska | 29 August 2019 | 4 March 2020 |
| Ministry of Social Policy | Maryna Lazebna | 4 March 2020 | 19 July 2022 |
| Ministry of Social Policy | Oksana Zholnovych | 19 July 2022 | Present |

### List of ministers of Labor

| Name of ministry | Name of minister | Term of office | Term of office |
| Name of ministry | Name of minister | Start | End |
| Russian plenipotentiary representative in Ukraine | Nikolai Glebov-Avilov | 9 May 1920 | January 1921 |
| People's Commissariat of Labor | Omelyan Horbachov | August 1924 | 23 November 1925 |
| People's Commissariat of Labor | Kyrylo Sukhomlyn | December 1925 | January 1927 |
| People's Commissariat of Labor | Kostiantyn Hulyi | March 1927 | 20 April 1932 |
| People's Commissariat of Labor | Ivan Vyrostkov | 20 April 1932 | 1933 |
| Ministry of Labor | Vitaliy Vasylchenko | 1990 | October 29, 1991 |
| Ministry of Labor | Mykhailo Kaskevych | October 29, 1991 | August 8, 1996 |
| Ministry of Labor | Mykola Bilobotsky | August 1996 | July 1997 |